| CANDIDACY | Standing in election, Frank approaches a city's limits (9) |
| ACCOMPLICE | Qualified representative standing in election (10) |
| EYECANDY | Beauty spot in front of city's limits? (3,5) |
| INCUBATOR | Up north, trainee reporter approaches a hill in controlled environment (9) |
| ASYMPTOTE | Straight line that continually approaches a plane curve but never meets it (9) |
| INARREARS | Unsettled, head of institute approaches a bishop within (2,7) |
| CATACLYSM | 9/11, say, shattered a city's calm with no hint of imminence (9) |
| AERODROME | French illustrator turning up in a city's airport |
| METRODESK | *It has a finger on a city's pulse |
| POLLUTION | Corruption in election, university to bar a dean ultimately (9) |
| SMOGGIEST | Most polluted, as a city's air |
| POLEMICAL | Engaging in controversial debate, I came badly-placed in election |
| MANIFESTO | Show nothing in election statement (9) |
| CANDIDATE | One who carries on in election, like 24Dn 22Dn (10,9) |
| FRANCHISE | Man's in EU country getting right to vote in elections (9) |
| VOLTEFACE | Left in election following excellent change of direction (5-4) |
| HOIPOLLOI | Rabble in election swamped by different calls for attention (3,6) |
| ESTONIANS | Citizens of the only country that relies significantly on online voting in elections |
| TIMBERNERSLEE | Spinner of web in wood approaches a forgotten shelter (3,7-3) |
| NEARS | Approaches a listener in different ways (5) |
